motivated mark zuckerberg s next life changing creation. somewhere along one of these pathways might have been where the idea for facebook started. harry lewis was mark s computer science professor and a dean at harvard. when the students arrived at campus in the fall, they were handed a facebook. it was a book of faces and names and hometowns basically. that s all it is. there were some computer science students eager to put the facebook on loin. this was not necessarily a simple thing to do. and then somebody did it any way. without our involvement. that somebody, mark zuckerberg. he walked up to the registrar s office. can i help you and volunteer as a student to digitize this? they said no. i think it was almost a little bit of maybe you just don t get what i mean. so let me just go home and do it. and show you. i want to meet that person
take long for harvard to shut down the site. mark actually became a celebrity on campus. i was like, oh, mark, you kind of probably put that out there and didn t really think it through that well. but i mean, he always saw a need for something and his gut instinct was always, let s get this out there and then make it perfect. this idea of creating and breaking in the name of connecting would be a theme that would only amplify a decade later as the stakes got higher. but 15 years ago at harvard, it motivated mark zuckerberg s next life changing creation. somewhere along one of these path wways might have been wher the idea for facebook started. harry lewis was mark s computer science professor and a dean at harvard. when the students arrived at campus in the fall, they were